[Science Daily] Plato was right: Earth is made, on average, of cubes

[Science Daily]

Plato was right: Earth is made, on average, of cubes

The ancient philosopher Plato posited the shapes of the building blocks of the universe. According to him, the earth was formed of cubes. Researchers now find a fundamental truth in that premise. Studying the shapes and fragmentation patterns of a variety of rocks, they found that the average of all their forms is a cube.


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